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From: David Miller

Subject: Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.

Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 11:45 am

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:04:59 +0200

quoted text> Would we not hope that most net drivers can handle {,net}dev_alloc_skb()
> failing? Otherwise we have some serious trouble.

False presumption.

Most can but some legacy ones really do not handle this well.

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GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Dave Jones, (Tue Apr 1, 4:56 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Nick Piggin, (Tue Apr 1, 6:28 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Dave Jones, (Tue Apr 1, 6:35 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Chris Snook, (Tue Apr 1, 11:28 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 2, 12:56 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., KOSAKI Motohiro, (Wed Apr 2, 1:17 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., David Miller, (Wed Apr 2, 1:24 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 2, 1:43 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Nick Piggin, (Wed Apr 2, 2:12 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., KOSAKI Motohiro, (Wed Apr 2, 3:00 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., KOSAKI Motohiro, (Wed Apr 2, 3:56 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Apr 2, 4:04 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 2, 8:54 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Jeff Garzik, (Wed Apr 2, 10:21 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 2, 10:33 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Jeff Garzik, (Wed Apr 2, 11:18 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Kok, Auke, (Wed Apr 2, 11:37 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., David Miller, (Wed Apr 2, 11:44 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., David Miller, (Wed Apr 2, 11:45 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Jeff Garzik, (Wed Apr 2, 12:06 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Michael Chan, (Wed Apr 2, 1:12 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., David Miller, (Wed Apr 2, 1:53 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Nick Piggin, (Wed Apr 2, 10:22 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 2, 10:32 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Nick Piggin, (Wed Apr 2, 10:57 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Evgeniy Polyakov, (Thu Apr 3, 1:59 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Jeff Garzik, (Thu Apr 3, 11:20 am)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Dave Jones, (Thu Jun 26, 2:06 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Chris Snook, (Thu Jun 26, 3:26 pm)

Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures., Evgeniy Polyakov, (Fri Jun 27, 3:01 am)

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